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Longreach Airport

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476: 162: 423: 457: 169: 33: 718: 730: 388:, the first operational base for the airline, later to be known as QANTAS, was Longreach. Principal among the pioneers of the airline were Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness, who had seen the opportunities aviation had presented to remote Australia during their survey the previous year. One of the original Qantas hangars survives at the airport to this day. 694: 307: 471:
In 1990, the Department of Aviation closed the Longreach Flight Service Unit, the descendant of the Aeradio station opened in 1941. The airport was transferred to the ownership of the Longreach Shire Council shortly thereafter.
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Longreach has played a major part in Australian aviation from 1919 onwards. In August of that year, a small party left the town to travel overland to survey a route suitable for competitors in the first air race to leave
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In 2012, a new terminal was opened to comply with new security regulations. The new terminal features security screening facilities, and improved check in and arrival facilities, as well as increased parking facilities.
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established the Longreach Aeradio station at the airport. This unit enabled air ground communication with the increasing number of radio equipped aircraft operating throughout the country.
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at the Imperial Hotel in Longreach. Johnson had just completed the first flight by a woman from England to Australia, and was continuing to the east coast.
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At one time in the 1960s, Longreach airport was one of the busiest inland airports in Australia. However, with drought and the general downturn of the
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Fysh, McGinness and Gorham in Longreach, Australia, at the start of the survey in preparation of the Great Race from England to Sydney. 1919
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Crew of Boeing B-17E Fortress 41-2034 (Tojo's Physic) of the USAAF 19th Bomb Group, 93d Bomb Squadron, stationed at Longreach, June 1942
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In 1920, the first single engine aircraft to complete the flight from England to Australia arrived. The aircraft was an
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aircraft, registered VH-EBQ and named City of Bunbury, flown into the town for static display at the
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arrived in 1927, during a flight around the continent. His aircraft on this occasion was a
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passed through the airport in 1919. This flight was undertaken by Captain
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This lists airports in Australia with scheduled passenger services.
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and Paul McGinness, two pilots who had both been trained in the
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The first overland flight across the Australian continent from
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landed, piloted by Ross and Keith Smith, who were en route to
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Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Australia
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has one of its nine Queensland bases at Longreach Airport.
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The Flight Service console, now located in a town museum
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In December 1919, a 311: 181:Location in Queensland 135:23.43139°S 144.27806°E 2581:Longreach, Queensland 772:Airports in Australia 627:10 April 2012 at the 617:Airservices Australia 478: 459: 425: 309: 287:. 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Index


IATA
ICAO
Longreach Shire Council
AMSL
Coordinates
23°25′53″S 144°16′41″E / 23.43139°S 144.27806°E / -23.43139; 144.27806
YLRE is located in Queensland
Runways
Direction
Asphalt
AIP
IATA
ICAO
Longreach
Queensland
Australia
nautical miles
Royal Flying Doctor Service

England
Hudson Fysh
Australian Flying Corps
World War I
Vickers Vimy
Melbourne
England to Australia flight
Melbourne
Darwin
Henry Wrigley

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